Jacques Francois Dugommier

Jacques Francois Dugommier (1 August 1738-18 November 1794) was a General of Division of the French Republic during the French Revolutionary Wars.

Biography
Jacques Francois Dugommier was born on 1 August 1738 in Trois Rivieres, Guadeloupe, Kingdom of France, and entered the French Army in 1759, defending Guadeloupe from the British invasion during the Seven Years' War. During the French Revolutionary Wars he joined the French Revolutionary Army and he drove the Austrians and Sardinians from Nice in September 1793. While a deputy of the National Convention of the French Republic, he took over the defenses of Toulon from Jean Francois Carteaux and a young Napoleon Bonaparte served under his command in the attack on the city in 1793. In 1794, he was sent to command the French forces fighting on the Pyrenean front against the Kingdom of Spain. Dugommier was killed in the Spanish shelling of the French positions during the battle of Black Mountain on 18 November 1794.